Module manager: James Mooney
Email: j.r.mooney@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| MUS3231 | Music, Sound, and Media |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Music, sound, and media are broad terms, and there are frequent intersections between these disciplinary areas. Human inventiveness and societal demands can drive technological developments in music, sound and media, enabling novel and diverse forms of creativity and interaction. Likewise, technological advances in these areas can lead to cultural change through engagement with new musical, audiovisual and mixed-media contexts. On this module you will analyse the relationships between music, sound, and media in critical contexts relating to staff specialisms. You will draw on relevant methodologies to critique music, sound and media within specific social, cultural and technological environments, and explore the issues and challenges that arise from their intersection. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
This module aims to develop your capability to engage critically with musicological sources and artifacts to analyse the relationships between music, sound, and media. You will learn to apply relevant methodologies to appraise connections between theories and practices of music, sound, and media, and their associated interdisciplinary contexts.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
LO1. Situate music, sound, and media with respect to a range of analytical contexts and critical perspectives.
LO2. Analyse connections between theories and practices of music, sound, and media.
LO3. Apply a range of appropriate methodologies to the study of music, sound, and media, and their associated technologies.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Analyse sources to appraise, debate and defend scholarly arguments
5. Communicate ideas in clear and structured ways.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Seminar | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Private study hours | 182.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 17.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Formative feedback on a preparatory task to the summative coursework assessment – which may take the form of a literature review, abstract or other similar task as appropriate to the form of the final assessment – will be provided before or within the seminar, helping to build skills (especially SLO4 and 5). This feedback may be provided in plenary form, with opportunities for individualized follow-up feedback via email or drop-in hours extended to students who wish to take advantage of it. It is anticipated that, rather than being ‘accompanied’ by ‘set readings’, lectures will incorporate seminar elements (Q&A and group work) that engage students directly with texts, appropriate reading strategies and literature search approaches, and allow them to gain a clearer sense of the effectiveness of their reading and research.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Written Assignment | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 03/03/2025
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